ARE YOU FACING REJECTION?

Of all human feelings, perhaps the feeling of rejection is the most unbearable and heart-rending. All through the Bible we find that men of God were first rejected and then exalted.

Joseph, the son of Jacob was not spared. In the beginning it looked as if he was enjoying the love of his father, but soon the time of his rejection came - when his brethren first rejected him. Then the dream that God gave him caused his father to rebuke him. Soon he was cut off from his family. Again, in the house of Potiphar, it looked as if he was being exalted. But rejection followed. But finally, the time came when God exalted him to be on the throne next to the Pharaoh.

David is another fitting example for this truth. It is really a wonder how David went through all the rejection he faced. When David had a harp for Saul, Saul had a spear for David. But this is how God leads His chosen ones. Finally, David was exalted to be king over Israel.

You may be rejected by your friends and even by your own wife or husband, brothers and sisters. At times it may even appear as if God Himself has rejected you. Consider Hannah! We read that God Himself had shut her womb (I Sam 1:5). Dear child of God, we may be continously rejected until we come to wholly belong to God. When God wants to exalt us to higher spiritual planes, He first allows us to tread the path of rejection. If, by the grace of God, we receive strength in the inner man to rejoice in our hour of rejection, we will be blessed both spiritually and materially.

- TPM Morning Manna